We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Diagnostic Manager 11.1. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the Idera...

We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Diagnostic Manager 11.1. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the Idera...
Attack surface management (ASM) is a growing focus for security teams and many C-Level executives with a stake in data management and security such...
Bare metal to cloud hosted virtual machines Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) is a four-letter word in every sense, well beyond simply the number of...
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Perhaps you just read the title and thought, “Disable indexes…say what?” Stay with me here, and I'll show you how this...
We are pleased to announce the release of Precise 10.3, the company’s application performance monitoring platform. Precise helps IT...
We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Diagnostic Manager 11.0. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the Idera...
Introduction When we talk about SQL Server indexes, we are usually discussing the rowstore clustered or non-clustered index. However, along with...
SQL Server database index fragmentation is a problem faced by many database administrators (DBAs). It is an issue that can seriously impact database...
SQL Server database teams around the world benefit from the features of SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server. A well-established and mature...
Introduction During a recent SQL Server Performance Tuning consultation, I was asked a fascinating question by a Senior DBA working with me from the...
A career as a database administrator (DBA) should appeal to individuals interested in a job that involves a diverse range of duties and technical...
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Many different types of malware are floating around out there. Some of the variants are purely destructive and are designed to simply delete data....
Continuing with our Performance Tuning series as you have learned baselining and knowing your normal system performance metrics is an important part...
Introduction I have now warned several times against the mindset that suggests indexing is a silver bullet for SQL Server performance. In the...
Good morning, I'm looking at trying to find a way to do the following. For arguements sake, lets say that I have a single table in every...
Introduction All too often, people treat a good index as a silver bullet in terms of SQL Server performance. It is well-known that we will encounter...
One of the promises of technology was that it would make our lives less complicated and afford the average person more free time to pursue the...
All but the most novice SQL Server DBA understands that creating database backups is an important part of their job. A viable backup can be the...
Introduction People often characterize indexes as silver bullets for the performance issues in SQL Server. Is it true? Well, yes and no. In this...
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was put into effect on May 25, 2018. In the rapidly evolving world of...
DBAs have many responsibilities as the keepers of enterprise data resources. Keeping systems available for their users is one of the big ones....
Performance Monitoring Tools In this second post we are diving into what tools you can use to capture the important performance metrics you need to...